Shoe tap or half-sole.



J H SHOEMAKER & H. BRUCK.

SHOE TAP 0R HALF SOLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. I7. 917- 11, 3, Patented fiept. 11, 191?.

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To all whom it may concern:

. Be it lmon that we, donrr'HisnomuAxnn and HENRY Banecitizens of the United States, 'reSidin'g' at Portland,.in the county e .Multnomah, State of Oregon, haveinshank.

thereof, ut will be as securely "rented anew and useful Shoe 'lap"orHa1-f=' Sole, of, which-the .tollowing is, a' specifi-fnation.

This-invention relates to shoe'taps or solesfo'rmed of compositions of matter, one I of the objects of the invention being to provide means wlirebythe back edge of a tap or half sole can be securely. attached to the shank portion of the shoe without danger of the attaching means pullingout of the ieretofore, where composition half soles or taps have been used, considerable dith- -cu1ty has been experienced in. so fastening the back edge to the shank'of the shoe as fipeeification oi Letters latent.

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- Application filed April 17,1517. Serial No. 162,616.

position. 1 Arranged within the back edge portlon of this tap or half sole is a stri of 'fabricindicatedgat 2 and which is f0 ded two plies bot along its lon itudinal center so as to provide h of which are embedded. in the tap, the fold being located close to the rearedge asshown particularly. in Fig. 2.

= In making thetap with the-present im- 'provements, thefabric strip, which can be I canvas or the like,"is folded and placed in the back ortion of the tap before the same is vulcanized. After the tap has been vulcanized, this fabric will be securely embedded therein and will constitute an efficient to prevent the edge from pullin away from i j the shank, "this being. due to t a fact that I the bending action of the sole causes the With the foregoing and other-objects in ferred form of t e invention has viewwhich will appear as the description that it will not pull odof the. nails or other I within the tap, and being proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of partsand in the details of construction hereinafter de scribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein'disclosed, can be made.

within the scope of what is'claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

. In the accom anying drawings the pre- 'In'said drawings Fi re 1 is a plan view of a tap or half sole a ving the present. improvements combined therewith, a portion of the composition being broken away to show the insert.

Fi 2 1s a section on line 2-2 Fig. 1.

Re errin to the figures by characters of terence l designates a-halt sole or tap 11 shown.

meal of rubber or any other suitable coin within' the tap and being reinforcing means which, when engaged by nails driven therethrough, will cling tightly to the .nails and prevent-the tap from pulling ofi of them. Thus the tap will be held as securely as an ordinary leather tap where attached to the shank of the shoe.

What is claimed is 1'. A shoe ta having u per and lower I thicknesses of brous, rein orcing material composition tap to pull 0d of thehea'ds ofembedded in the-rear edge portion thereof, the nails used in fastening the tap 1 to the saidthicknesses being separated from each other so as not to form a double thickness.

2. A shoe. tap including a composition body and a' fabric stripextending throu hout the width of the body at the back e ge thereof, said strip being completely housed folded longitudinally to form spaced pl es.

3. A shoe tap including a composition body and a fabric strip extending throughout the width of the body at the back edge thereof, said strip being completely housed folded longitudinally, the fold portion of the fabric being located close to the rear edge of the tap, 4. A shoe tap consistin of a vulcanized composition and a-- longitudinally folded fabric strip housed in the composition close to the back edge of the tap, the fold of the fabric being located adjacent said edge.

In "testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, we have hereto afiixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H.- sHoEMAKEn". EN Y BRUCK.

Witnessesf I rm 1' ON, JOHN Rnrnonne, 

